rhetorical

Allegory- an extended metaphor; prolonged use of an image to express meaning

Alliteration- repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words

Anaphora- repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clause

Anastrophe- inversion of usual word order

Aposiopesis- breaking off in the middle of a sentence

Apostrophe- sudden turn to address a person or object who is present/absent

Asyndeton- omission of conjunctions

Chiasmus- an abba arrangement of words; used with pairs of nouns/adjectives

Ecphrasis- extended description of a work of art or scene of nature

Ellipsis- omission of words easily understood in context

Enjambment- continuation of a clause beyond the end of one line and into the beginning of the next

Golden line- interlocking word order with a verb in the middle; synchesis

Hendiadys- expressing a single idea with two nouns joined by a conjunction

Hyperbaton- distortion of normal word order

Hyperbole- exaggeration

Hysteron proteron- reversal of the natural order of events

Synchesis- interlocking word order; ABAB order often used with pairs of nouns and adjectives

Litotes- use of a negative or double negative to express something positive

Metaphor- expression of meaning through another image

Metonymy- the use of one noun or image to suggest another

Onomatopoeia- use of words that sound like their meaning

Personification- attribution of human characteristics to something not human

Pleonasm- the use of superfluous(unnecessary) words to enrich the thought

Polysyndeton- use of more conjunctions than needed

Simile- explicit comparison using words like or as(common with sicut, similis, velut, qualis, quam)

Synecdoche- use of the part to express the whole

Tmesis- separation of a compound word into two parts

Enallage- transferred epithet; transfer of an adjective from its proper object to a related object